Kernel Definition

[Barnacle Wes]

In article <19332 at rpp386.cactus.org>, jfh at rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes:
% The AIX v3 kernel is pagable.  It is divided into three "segments", as
% it were.  The first is code that is only required for initialization.
% The second is "pinned" code that must always be present (like the page
% fault handler ;-) and the third is pagable code [ by "code" I mean
% object code - that is, text and data ]
% 
% The various system tables are defined with huge sizes, and the system
% just page faults in the new pages for the kernel tables as it needs
% them, thus ending the dilema about creating new proc table or whateve
% entries by rebuilding the system.  On a typical system the size of the
% kernel is somewheres near 20MB, much of which is never even used - it
% just remains off in virtual la-la land waiting to be referenced ...

But the tables still require page space, right?  V.4's dynamically-sized
tables sound like a better idea.

	Wes Peters
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